#GooseSteppingTowardApocalypse: Even if the confrontational approach to China practiced by both Trump and Biden doesn’t lead to war, the next worst thing—a prolonged Cold War—is something we can’t afford, given the number of non-zero-sum problems the world’s nations need to collectively address: climate change, pandemics, the proliferation of nuclear and biological weapons, the militarization of outer space, threats posed by AI, and so on. These dangers, if unaddressed, could in various combinations prove truly catastrophic. 

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Robert Wright for the Nonzero newsletter on Substack- #NewWorldDisorderIsGangster: (2) relying heavily on unilateral economic weapons as a way to address globalization’s bad side effects—and matching that with economic warfare in the national security realm, not to mention gratuitous military muscle flexing in China’s neighborhood. (Did you know the US has now sent troops to the Kinmen islands, which are Taiwanese territory but more than 100 miles from Taiwan and barely more than a mile from mainland China?)

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